China

Will Africa feed China?
- All China Review
- 02 September 2015
In this excerpt from her book, ‘Will Africa Feed China?’, Deborah Brautigam discusses China-Cameroon agricultural development and investment.
Why China's Ma Xingfa bought 705,700 hectares of northern Australia
- Australian Financial Review
- 01 September 2015
Chinese billionaire is looking to expand overseas and potentially take part in the next big boom, which he says just might be Australian agriculture as Chinese people seek out higher-quality food products.
Chinese entrepreneurs visit Tonga
- Matangi
- 31 August 2015
The Chinese delegation was interested in setting up businesses in Tonga that could process cassava into starch as well cultivating mushrooms for export.
Pengxin may buy 2 cattle farms in Australia
- China Daily
- 29 August 2015
Chinese conglomerate Shanghai Pengxin Group Co Ltd is set to become the largest farmland owner in Australia if it is successful in the acquisitions of two cattle farms for A$1 billion ($720 million).
Nigeria to work with Chinese firm on sorghum production
- World Grain
- 27 August 2015
Sang-Liang Technology Development Centre and Nigeria's Raw Materials Research and Development Council will partner with the Niger state government for land provision for the pilot project.
Questions we need to ask about what would be the second largest rubber plantation in Africa
- Sierra Express
- 26 August 2015
China has confirmed the continuation of a $1.2 billion rubber and rice investment deal in Sierra Leone, covering 135,000 hectares, that was signed in 2012.
China agriculture: Seeds of hope
- AVCJ
- 19 August 2015
If Black Soil Capital Partners gets its way, the fields of Heilongjiang will be consolidated under long-term leases from farmers, giving way to a modern, industrialized US-style business model.
Beef, big bucks and buy-ups: are Chinese investors changing the face of Australia?
- Guardian
- 06 August 2015
Chinese company's takeover of Australian farmland and firms draws mixed reaction from Australia ministers.
China’s Liu Yonghao New Hope door to Australian dairy
- The Australian
- 04 August 2015
New Hope Group announced last year it would invest $500m into Australian agribusiness, and its chairman Liu Yonghao revealed majority of the fund would support New Hope Dairy’s projects in Australia.
Chinese eye Australia's outback in $43 billion foreign farming frenzy
- Bloomberg
- 04 August 2015
Australia is facing $43 billion foreign farming frenzy by Chinese companies, spurred by mounting food security needs and a push to “go global.”
Californians, Chinese scooping up farmland in Washington state
- NBC News
- 31 July 2015
Farmers from drought-parched California are finding greener pastures in the Pacific Northwest -- and so are buyers from China.
Les investisseurs chinois sont friands de terres agricoles australiennes
- ABC
- 31 July 2015
Les investisseurs chinois s'intéressent surtout aux meilleures terres, notamment au bassin Murray-Darling, qui est la principale surface agricole d'Australie